NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deerfield Management Company has entered into an agreement with MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD) under which Mannkind may receive up to $160,000,000. This financing is designed to support the regulatory process and commercialization activities for Afrezza®, MannKind’s inhaled insulin product.

“We are pleased to be able to support MannKind’s innovative efforts to advance the treatment of diabetes,” said James E. Flynn, General Partner at Deerfield. “Diabetes remains one of the most prevalent, fastest growing and most expensive diseases from a societal standpoint and efforts to fund more effective and more widely adopted therapies are essential.”

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